30 May 2011 to 3 June 2011
IST Congress Centre
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Probing sterile neutrinos in meson decays

1 Jun 2011, 15:15
15m
VA3 (IST Congress Center)

VA3

IST Congress Center

Speaker

Dr Takehiko Asaka (Niigata University)

Description

We consider the nuMSM, which is the minimal standard model extended by three right handed neutrinos with masses lighter than the weak scale. In this model, the lightest right-handed neutrino $N_1$ is dark matter of the universe and the other two $N_2$ and $N_3$ are responsible to the neutrino masses in oscillation experiments and baryon asymmetry of the universe. In this talk, we would like to explain how to search $N_2$ and $N_3$ in decays of pions and kaons. Especially, we consider the case when their masses are lighter than the pion mass, and show the parameter range allowed from the various constraints by experiments and cosmology. We also present the implications to the future search experiments in pion and kaon decays.

Author

Dr Takehiko Asaka (Niigata University)

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